Found this on yahoo...
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Thousands of women in Punjab have fallen prey to 'holiday marriages', duped into marriage by non-resident Indians visiting India and then dumped. The passport office in Jalandhar has formed a women's grievance cell to deal with such complaints and take action against the accused husbands.
'Around 15,000 girls from Punjab's Doaba region, consisting of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala districts, were duped by their NRI husbands during the last few years. Jalandhar has maximum number of such cases,' Parneet Singh, passport officer of the Regional Passport Office (RPO), told IANS.
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Read more at yahoo - _http://in.news.yahoo.com/punjabs-passport-office-keep-check-holiday-marriages-20110206-201337-153.html
Edited by adithy - 14 years ago